Among other things it claimed that "North Carolina’s overall electoral integrity score of 58/100 for the 2016 election places us alongside authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies like Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone."

But knowing from the beginning it was only a politically motivated stunt to convince people that North Carolina is not only on the wrong track but has disregard for freedom and democratic principles, I kept my eye out for pieces refuting the less than scientific results this so called study found.

And I found quite a bit:

The Bad Research Behind the Bogus Claim That North Carolina Is No Longer a Democracy